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{"id": "gadfly", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "gadfly", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["late 16th century: from gad, or obsolete gad \u2018goad, spike\u2019, from Old Norse gaddr, of Germanic origin; related to yard"], "inflections": [{"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "plural", "text": "Plural", "type": "Number"}], "inflectedForm": "gadflies"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/gadfly_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8\u0261adfl\u028c\u026a"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["a fly that bites livestock, especially a horsefly, warble fly, or botfly."], "domainClasses": [{"id": "insect", "text": "Insect"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0398550.007", "semanticClasses": [{"id": "fly", "text": "Fly"}], "shortDefinitions": ["fly that bites livestock"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["a person who annoys or criticizes others in order to provoke them into action"], "examples": [{"text": "always a gadfly, he attacked intellectual orthodoxies"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0398550.010", "semanticClasses": [{"id": "disliked_person", "text": "Disliked_Person"}], "shortDefinitions": ["person who annoys or criticizes others"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "nuisance"}, {"language": "en", "text": "bother"}, {"language": "en", "text": "annoyance"}, {"language": "en", "text": "irritation"}, {"language": "en", "text": "irritant"}, {"language": "en", "text": "thorn in one's flesh"}, {"language": "en", "text": "thorn in one's side"}, {"language": "en", "text": "vexation"}, {"language": "en", "text": "trial"}, {"language": "en", "text": "the bane of one's life"}, {"language": "en", "text": "menace"}, {"language": "en", "text": "curse"}, {"language": "en", "text": "problem"}, {"language": "en", "text": "trouble"}, {"language": "en", "text": "worry"}, {"language": "en", "text": "inconvenience"}, {"language": "en", "text": "bore"}, {"language": "en", "text": "gadfly"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "pest", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0011001.001"}]}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "noun", "text": "Noun"}, "text": "gadfly"}], "type": "headword", "word": "gadfly"}], "word": "gadfly"}
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